Aye--one of the big problems is that a big chunk of the initial userbase was drawn from th9ose that paid attention enough to LJ itself as a business/service/movement to care.
They tended to be power users, and the type of person that wants 10 paid accounts for each of their ten seperate RPG characters is far mor elikely to notice LJ fuckups than the normal user with a small circle of personal friends who posts a few times a month.
Combine that with the falloff in general usage of LJ itself, with a lot of comms Iused to be active in barely being used at all these days, and the DW userbase is drawn fromt he active LJ userbase, which is overwhelmingly fandom.
There will be more comms as time goes by, but a lot of us are more inclined to stick to personal journals for stuff--I wonder if part of that is the subscribe/grant access thing, I can follow people without worrying about giving them access to private stuff, so I have less inclination to join and use a comm actively, as people can read my stuff on, say, politics, by subscribing to my politics tag, instead of joining the politics comm I used to use.
So, what sor to fcomm would you use/promote/whatever? There is already a chunk of UK based users, more than I expected, but uk isn't very active.
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They tended to be power users, and the type of person that wants 10 paid accounts for each of their ten seperate RPG characters is far mor elikely to notice LJ fuckups than the normal user with a small circle of personal friends who posts a few times a month.
Combine that with the falloff in general usage of LJ itself, with a lot of comms Iused to be active in barely being used at all these days, and the DW userbase is drawn fromt he active LJ userbase, which is overwhelmingly fandom.
There will be more comms as time goes by, but a lot of us are more inclined to stick to personal journals for stuff--I wonder if part of that is the subscribe/grant access thing, I can follow people without worrying about giving them access to private stuff, so I have less inclination to join and use a comm actively, as people can read my stuff on, say, politics, by subscribing to my politics tag, instead of joining the politics comm I used to use.
So, what sor to fcomm would you use/promote/whatever? There is already a chunk of UK based users, more than I expected, but